Japan's former Princess Mako is working as a volunteer at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The former princess who gave up her royal rites to marry her college sweetheart Komuro now lives in New York City. Mako who is fit for the job earned a degree in art and cultural heritage, also bagging…
Mako who is fit for the job earned a degree in art and cultural heritage, also bagging a master’s in Art Museum and Gallery Studies in 2016 at the University of Leicester. A former curator said about her “She’s qualified and probably handling pieces in the collection. In general, it’s work which requires a great deal of preparation and often means spending a lot of time in the library.”
The former Princess Mako relinquished all rites as the law in Japan requires that the princess leaves the imperial family after marriage to a commoner.